His connection with it was really a master-piece of editing.

This was in fact, to come back, very much the process he might have been proposing to apply to Mrs.Assingham's view of what was now before them; that is to their connection with Charlotte Stant's possibilities.

They wouldn't lavish on them all their little fortune of curiosity and alarm; certainly they wouldn't spend their cherished savings so early in the day.

He liked Charlotte, moreover, who was a smooth and compact inmate, and whom he felt as, with her instincts that made against waste, much more of his own sort than his wife.

He could talk with her about Fanny almost better than he could talk with Fanny about Charlotte.